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The Role of Historical Change for Adult Development and Aging
Special issue of the APA journal Psychology and Aging, Vol. 34, No. 8, December 2019. Includes articles about cognitive aging, life outcomes, metamemory, control beliefs, narcissism, personality across the lifespan, loneliness, and friendship.
Secular Changes in Late-Life Cognition and Well-Being: Towards a Long Bright Future With a Short Brisk Ending? [PDF]
How sociocultural contexts shape individual functioning is of prime interest for psychological inquiry. Secular increases favoring later-born cohorts in fluid intelligence measures are widely documented for young adults. This study quantified such trends in old age using data from highly comparable participants living in a narrowly defined geographical area and examined whether these trends would generalize to quality-of-life indicators.
